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Shah Inayat Qadiri 4

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Bulleh Shah
Bulleh Shah

An artistic depiction of Bulleh Shah

Born 1680 CE
Uch, Punjab, Mughal Empire
(Modern day Pakistan)

Died 1757 CE
Kasur, Punjab, Mughal Empire
(Modern day Pakistan)

Honored in Islam, Sikhism

Influences Shah Hussain, Sultan Bahu, Shah Sharaf and Sikh Gurus

Influenced Countless Sufi poets

Tradition/Genre Kafi

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Bulleh Shah, sometimes Bulla(h) Shah (1680–1757) (Punjabi: ‫ﺑﻠﮩﮯ ﺷﺎﮦ‬, ਬੁੱਲ੍ਹੇ ਸ਼ਾਹ) was a Punjabi Sufi poet,
[1]
humanist and philosopher. His full name was Abdullah Shah
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Life
A large amount of what is believed to be known about Bulleh Shah comes through legends, and is subjective; to the
point that there isn’t even agreement among historians concerning his precise date and place of birth. Some
information about his life has been pieced together from his own writings. Other "facts" seem to have been passed
down through oral traditions.
Bulleh Shah is believed to have been born in 1680 in the small village of Uch, Punjab, in present-day Pakistan.[2] His
father, Shah Muhammad Darwaish, was a teacher and preacher in a village mosque. Little is known about Bulleh
Shah's ancestry except that his family claimed direct descent from the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.
When he was six months old, his parents relocated to Malakwal. His father later got a job in Pandoke, about 50 miles
south-east of Kasur. Bulleh Shah received his early schooling in Pandoke and moved to Kasur for higher education.
He also received education from Maulana Mohiyuddin. His spiritual teacher was the Qadiri Sufi Shah Inayat Qadiri,
who was a member of the Arain tribe of Lahore.
Bulleh Shah's time was marked with communal strife between Muslims and Sikhs. But in that age Baba Bulleh Shah
was a beacon of hope and peace for the citizens of Punjab. While Bulleh Shah was in Pandoke, Muslims killed a
young Sikh man who was riding through their village in retaliation for murder of some Muslims by Sikhs. Baba
Bulleh Shah denounced the murder of an innocent Sikh and was censured by the mullas and muftis of Pandoke.
Bulleh Shah maintained that violence was not the answer to violence. Bulleh Shah also hailed the ninth Sikh Guru,
Guru Tegh Bahadur as a Ghazi, or "religious warrior", which caused controversy among Muslims of that time.
[citation needed]

Bulleh Shah died in 1757 in Kasur. Tradition has it that Islamic scholars of the time forbade local imams to carry out
Bulleh Shah's funeral, considering him an infidel. However, after he was buried outside of the city, his tomb started
attracting thousands of pilgrims from the region, and soon the center of Kasur moved to that place. Today, a large
festival (urs) is celebrated at the tomb every year.

Poetry
Bulleh Shah lived in the same period as the Sindhi Sufi poet Shah
Abdul Latif Bhatai (1689–1752). His lifespan also overlapped with the
Punjabi poet Waris Shah (1722–1798), of Heer Ranjha fame, and the
Sindhi Sufi poet Abdul Wahab (1739–1829), better known by his pen
name Sachal Sarmast. Amongst Urdu poets, Bulleh Shah lived 400
miles away from Mir Taqi Mir (1723–1810) of Agra.
Bulleh Shah's shrine in Kasur, Punjab, Pakistan
Bulleh Shah practiced the Sufi tradition of Punjabi poetry established
by poets like Shah Hussain (1538–1599), Sultan Bahu (1629–1691),
and Shah Sharaf (1640–1724).
The verse form Bulleh Shah primarily employed is called the Kafi, a style of Punjabi, Sindhi and Saraiki poetry used
not only by the Sufis of Sindh and Punjab, but also by Sikh gurus.
Bulleh Shah’s poetry and philosophy questioned the Islamic religious orthodoxy of his day.[citation needed]
Bulleh Shah’s writings represent him as a humanist, someone providing solutions to the sociological problems of the
world around him as he lives through it, describing the turbulence his motherland of Punjab is passing through, while
concurrently searching for God. His poetry highlights his mystical spiritual voyage through the four stages of
Sufism: Shariat (Path), Tariqat (Observance), Haqiqat (Truth) and Marfat (Union). The simplicity with which Bulleh
Shah has been able to address the complex fundamental issues of life and humanity is a large part of his appeal.
Thus, many people have put his kafis to music, from humble street-singers to renowned Sufi singers like Nusrat
Fateh Ali Khan, Pathanay Khan, Abida Parveen, the Waddali Brothers and Sain Zahoor, from the synthesized techno
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qawwali remixes of UK-based Asian artists to the Pakistani rock band Junoon.

Modern renderings
In the 1990s Junoon, a rock band from Pakistan, rendered his poems Bullah Ki Jaana and Aleph (Ilmon Bas Kareen
O Yaar). In 2004, Rabbi Shergill turned the abstruse metaphysical poem Bullah Ki Jaana into a rock/fusion song that
gained popularity in India and Pakistan. The Wadali Bandhu, a Punjabi Sufi group from India, have also released a
version of Bullah Ki Jaana in their album Aa Mil Yaar... Call of the Beloved. Another version was performed by
Lakhwinder Wadali and entitled Bullah. Dama Dam Mast Qalandar, a qawwali composed in honour of Shahbaz
Qalandar, has been one of Bulleh Shah's most popular poems and has been frequently rendered by many Indian,
Pakistani and Bangladeshi singers including Noor Jehan, Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Abida Parveen, Sabri
Brothers, Wadali brothers, Reshman, Runa Laila, and Arieb Azhar. Other qawwali song by Shah, include Sade
Vehre Aya Kar and Mera Piya Ghar Aaya.
Bulleh Shah's verses like Tere Ishq Nachaya have also been adapted and used in Bollywood film songs including
Chaiyya Chaiyya and Thayya Thayya in the 1998 film Dil Se.., and "Ranjha Ranjha" in the 2010 film Raavan.
Released in 2004, Rabbi Shergill's debut album Rabbi featured Bulla Ki Jana; the song was a chart-topper in 2005,
helping the album to eventually sell over 100,00 copies. The 2007 Pakistani movie Khuda Kay Liye includes Bulleh
Shah's poetry in the song Bandeya Ho. The 2008 film A Wednesday, included a song titled Bulle Shah, O Yaar Mere.
In 2009, the first episode of the second season of Pakistan's Coke Studio featured Aik Alif performed by Sain Zahoor
and Noori, while a year later, the first episode of the third season featured Na Raindee Hai and Makke Gayaan Gal
Mukdi Nahi performed by Arieb Azhar. In 2013, Rabbi Shergill performed his composition of Bulla Ki Jana
(originally released on his debut album in 2004) at the Hum TV Awards in Karachi, Pakistan.
Bulleh Shah's verses have been an inspiration to painters as well, as in the two series of paintings (Jogia Dhoop and
Shah Shabad) by an Indian painter Geeta Vadhera inspired by the poetry of Bulleh Shah and other Sufi poets and
saints.

Further reading
• Bulleh Shah: the love-intoxicated iconoclast, by J. R. Puri, Tilaka Raj Shangri. Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1986
• Great Sufi Poets of The Punjab, by R. M. Chopra, Iran Society, Kolkata, 1999.

Works online
• Bulleh Shah poetry [3]
• Articles on Bulleh Shah's life and poetry (apna.org) [4]
• Bulleh Shah: Poems (English translations) and Biography (poetry-chaikhana.com) [5]

References
[1] The Life of Bulleh Shah (http:/ / www. apnaorg. com/ poetry/ bullahn/ )
[2] Bulleh Shah Biography (http:/ / www. poetseers. org/ spiritual_and_devotional_poets/ sufi/ bulleh_shah)
[3] http:/ / onetruename. com/ bullehshah. htm
[4] http:/ / www. apnaorg. com/ poetry/ bullahn/
[5] http:/ / www. poetry-chaikhana. com/ B/ BullehShah/ index. htm

External links
• Short biography of Bulleh Shah (http://www.indo-pak.org/content/view/69/58/)
• Biography of Bulleh Shah (http://www.wichaar.com/news/239/ARTICLE/7115/2008-05-18.html)
• Littérateurs of the Punjabi language (http://www.sikhspectrum.com/082004/punjabi.htm)
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• Complete poetry of Bulleh Shah in Shahmukhi (http://www.scribd.com/doc/67768216/

kalam-e-Bulleh-Shah-complete-in-Shahmukhi/complete)

Sufism and
Tariqa

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Shah Inayat Qadiri

Shah Inayat Qadiri Shatari (Punjabi: ‫ ﺷﺎﻩ ﻋﻨﺎﯾﺖ ﻗﺎﺩﺭﻱ‬, also called Enayat Shah) was a Sufi saint of the
Qadiri-Shatari lineage (silsila) who lived in Qasur, in the Punjab region of present-day Pakistan. Shah Inayat Qadiri
is famous as the spiritual guide of the Punjabi poet Bulleh Shah.
Shah Inayat belonged to Arain tribe. He earned a living through agriculture or gardening. He also lived in Kasur for
some time but, due to the animosity of the ruler of Kasur, moved to Lahore and remained there until the end of his
life.[citation needed] His mausoleum is situated near Lahore.

Poetic references
In the "Song of the Saints of India" (Bang-i-Auliya-i-Hind) occurs the following reference;
From the tribe of gardeners was brother Shah Inayat,
He received honor from Shah Raza Wali Allah.
He earned his living in the small town of Qasur Pathana.
The ruler Husein Khan of this town was his arch enemy.
From there Inayat Shah came to the city of Lahore;
Two miles to the south of the city he made his habitation.
It is at this place that we find his tomb.
In 1141 he departed from this world.
Bulleh Shah says about his beloved teacher Enayat Shah:
Bullah has fallen in love with the Lord. He has given his life and body as earnest. His Lord and Master is Shah
Inayat who has captivated his heart.
Shah Inayat wrote "Dasdtur al-Amal" in which he describes various methods Hindus employed for attainment of
salvation in ancient times. According to him, this knowledge was acquired and carried by the Greeks after
Alexander's invasion of India, from where it was borrowed by ancient Iranians and subsequently adopted by the
mystics of Islamic countries. [citation needed]
Quoting from R. M. Chopra's "Great Sufi Poets of the Punjab": " The Wazai-i-Kalaan" gives the year of his death as
1735 AD, during the time of Emperor Muhammad Shah. He had acquired a good knowledge of Persian and Arabic.
As he was born with a mystic disposition, he became a disciple of the famous Sufi scholar Muhammad Ali Raza
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Shattari." He further goes on to say , Shah Inayat "migrated to Lahore where he established an institution of his own.
In this institution came men of education for advanced learning in philosophy, Sufism and other spiritual sciences of
the time."
"Shah Inayat wrote considerably on Sufism and its developments. His writings were mostly in Persian. He was an
erudite scholar whom Bulleh Shah made his Hadi or Guru."

References
• Great Sufi Poets of The Punjab", by R. M. Chopra, Iran Society, Calcutta, 1999.
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